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Spencer, George John (1758-1834), 2nd Earl Spencer; British Ambassador to Vienna, Whig Cabinet Minister; see DNB; Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors [pt III, Oct, 1892, by Michael Kerney]; de Ricci, English Collectors, 72-7; Anthony Lister, `George John, 2nd Earl Spencer and his `Librarian', Thomas Frognall Dibdin', in Bibliophily, ed. Robin Myers and Michael Harris, Publishing History Occasional Series, 2 (1986), 90-120; Clare A. Simmons, `George John Spencer, Second Earl Spencer (1758-1834)', in Nineteenth-century British Book-collectors and Bibliographers, ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, DLB 184 (Detroit, Washington DC, and London, 1997), 413-18; Spencer's books included the library of Count Reviczky, q.v., purchased in 1790, and that of the Duca di Cassano, q.v., purchased in 1819/20; some duplicates were sold at his anonymous sale: A Catalogue of the Duplicates of a Nobleman's Library consisting of Rare Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics of the 15th Century &c (London: Leigh and Sotheby, 20 Dec, [1798]; other duplicate sales were held in 1800 (26 May), 1802 (3 Apr.), 1804 (6 June), 1811 (16 May), 1815 (9 May), and 1823 (5 June); Cassano (and other) duplicates were subsequently sold at the following sales: A Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Duplicates from the Library of the Rt. Hon. Earl Spencer, K. G. (London: Evans, 2 Mar. 1821); the Bodleian copy of this catalogue is fully annotated; Catalogue of a Portion of the Library of the Late Duke di Cassano Serra (London: Evans, 18 Dec. 1826): [includes some incunabula purchased by the Bodleian]; Catalogue of a Portion of the Valuable Library of the Rev. Daniel Lysons, The Duke of Cassano (London: Evans: 17 Mar. 1828); some volumes have the coat of arms of Spencer and his countess, Lavinia Bingham (Spencer, impaling Bingham quartered with Turberville), stamped in gilt on both covers, and the motto, `Dieu defend le droit': this is illustrated in Davenport 354-5, but incorrectly described there as being Bingham quartered with Smith; a second stamp (not in Davenport), bearing Spencer's own arms alone, surrounded by the Garter and surmounted by an earl's coronet, is occasionally found (for example, on P-375); accession numbers, from 1 to above 20,000, were inscribed in ink on the verso of the upper cover of the binding or of the front endleaf, in the upper left-hand corner: see de Ricci 77; these numbers are often cancelled and followed by the letter `D' or `d', presumably for 'duplicate'; in some cases a `duplum' symbol was used instead, and seems occasionally to appear on its own, without the accession number; for Spencer books now at John Rylands University Library, Manchester, see Anthony Lister, `The Althorp Library of Second Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester: its Formation and Growth', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 71 (1989), 67-86; also P. H. Reid, `The Finest Private Library in Europe: a Brief Study of the Bibliophile Spencers of Althrop', Library History, 14 (1998), 65-71. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1758 to 1834. Period: 18th century to 19th century.

88 entries:

  • A-053(1) Aesopus — Vita et Fabulae [Latin and German]. — Ulm: Johann Zainer, [c.1476-7]. Folio.
  • A-367(1) Appianus — Historia Romana [Pars II]. — Reggio Emilia: Franciscus de Mazalibus, 22 Oct. 1494. Folio.
  • A-433(2) Arnoldus de Villa Nova — De arte cognoscendi venena. — Mantua: [Johannes Vurster and Johannes Baumeister], 1473. 4°.
  • A-487(1) Auctoritates Aristotelis — [Lübeck: Printer of Fliscus (Lucas Brandis?), c.1480]. Folio.
  • A-567(2) Augustinus Hipponensis — De cognitione verae vitae. — [Mainz]: Peter Schoeffer, [c.1475?]. 4°.
  • A-606(1)? Augustinus Hipponensis — De vita christiana. — [Mainz]: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, [c.1460-5]. 4°.
  • A-613(1) Aurbach, Johannes — Summa de sacramentis. — Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1469. Folio.
  • A-622(1) Ausonius, Decimus Magnus — Opera. — Venice: [Printer of Ausonius], 7 Dec. 1472. Folio.
  • B-257(1) Biblia Latina — Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn and Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1476. Folio.
  • B-318(1) Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guilelmi Britonis. — Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1482-3. Folio.
  • B-583(1) Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus — De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda [German]. — [Strasbourg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer], 1482. Folio.
  • C-012(1) Caesar, Gaius Julius — Commentarii. — Venice: Philippus Pincius, 25 Oct. 1494. Folio.
  • C-120(1) Catharina Senensis — Epistole (CCCLXVIII; ed. Bartholommeo de Alzano) [Italian]. — Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, ‘15' [i.e., not before 19] Sept. 1500. Folio.
  • C-227(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — De oratore. — Rome: Ulrich Han, 5 Dec. 1468. 4°.
  • C-238(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Orationes. — Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [between May and July] 1471. Folio.
  • C-251(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Orationes Philippicae (ed. Johannes Antonius Campanus). — [Rome]: Ulrich Han, [c.1470]. 4°.
  • C-274(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Epistolae ad familiares. — Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 22 Apr. 1480. Folio.
  • C-284(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Epistolae ad Brutum, et al. — Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1470. Folio.
  • C-291(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Tusculanae disputationes. — Rome: Ulrich Han, 1 Apr. 1469. 4°.
  • C-294(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Tusculanae disputationes. — Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 16 Sept. 1480. Folio.
  • C-430(1) Conradus de Alemania — Concordantiae bibliorum. — Basel: Johann Froben and Johann Petri de Langendorff, 1496. Folio.
  • C-473(2) Crastonus, Johannes — Lexicon Graeco-latinum. — Modena: Dionysius Bertochus, 1499-1500. Folio.
  • C-476(2) Crastonus, Johannes — Lexicon Latino-graecum (Vocabulista). — Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus and Marcus Antonius de Bazaleriis, 1497. 4°.
  • C-494(1) Curtius Rufus, Quintus — Historiae Alexandri Magni (ed. Pomponius Laetus). — [Rome]: Georgius Lauer, [not after Jan. 1472]. 4°.
  • D-007(1) Dante Alighieri — La Commedia. — Foligno: Johann Neumeister and Evangelista Angelini, ‘adi cinque et sei' [i.e. 11] Apr. 1472. Folio.
  • D-019(1) Dante Alighieri — Convivio. — Florence: Francesco Bonaccorsi, 20 Sept. 1490. 4°.
  • D-039(1) Decor Puellarum — Decor puellarum [Italian] Honore de le donzelle. — [Venice]: Nicolaus Jenson, ‘1461' [i.e. 1471]. 4°.
  • D-104(1) Dioscorides — De materia medica [Latin]. — Colle di Val d'Elsa: Johannes de Medemblick, July 1478. Folio.
  • D-153(1) Donatus, Aelius — Commentum in Terentii Comoedias. — [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, [c.1472]. Folio.
  • F-032(1) Festus, Sextus Pompeius — De verborum significatione (ed. Pomponius Laetus). — [Rome: Georgius Lauer, 1471-2]. 4°.
  • F-034(1) Festus, Sextus Pompeius — De verborum significatione (ed. Manilius Rhallus). — [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck], 31 Dec. 1477. Folio.
  • F-035(1) Festus, Sextus Pompeius — De verborum significatione. — Milan: [Pamfilio Castaldi with Antonius and Fortunatus Zarotus], 3 Aug. 1471. 4°.
  • F-042(1) Ficinus, Marsilius — Epistolae. — Venice: Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca), for Hieronymus Blondus, 11 Mar. 1495. Folio.
  • F-108(1) Frontinus, Sextus Julius — De aquaeductibus (ed. Pomponius Laetus and Johannes Sulpitius). — [Rome: Eucharius Silber, before 16 Aug. 1487]. Folio.
  • G-060(1) Gellius, Aulus — Noctes Atticae. — Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 6 Apr. 1496. Folio.
  • G-094(1) Gerson, Johannes — De spiritualibus nuptiis, sive Opusculum super Cantica canticorum. — Nuremberg: [Johann Sensenschmidt, 14]70. Folio.
  • H-087(1)? Hieronymus — Epistolae [a version dependent on the traditions represented by H‑082 and by H‑083/H‑084.] — Parma: [Printer of Hieronymus, ‘Epistolae'], 1480. Folio.
  • H-098(1) Hieronymus — Narratio vitae quam tenuit in eremo. — [Basel: Martin Flach, c.1485]. Broadside.
  • H-147(2) Honorius Augustodunensis — De imagine mundi. — [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1472?]. Folio.
  • H-213(1) Horatius Flaccus, Quintus — Opera (comm. pseudo-Porphyrius, pseudo-Acro, Christophorus Landinus, and Antonius Mancinellus). — Venice: [Philippus Pincius, for] Benedictus Fontana, 16 Feb. 1495/6. Folio.
  • H-216(1) Horatius Flaccus, Quintus — Carmina, et al. [with commentaries] (ed. Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus). — [Rome: Wendelinus de Wila or Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, c.1474-5]. Folio.
  • J-128(1) Johannes Chrysostomus — Homiliae super Johannem. — Rome: [Georgius Lauer], 29 Oct. 1470. Folio.
  • J-178(1) Johannes Presbyter — Epistola presbiteri Johannis. — [Speier: Johann and Conrad Hist, not after 1483]. 4°.
  • J-300(1) Juvenalis, Decimus Junius — Satyrae. — [Rome]: Ulrich Han, [c.1471]. 4°.
  • J-301(1) Juvenalis, Decimus Junius — Satyrae. — [Rome: Wendelinus de Wila], 16 Sept. 1474. 4°.
  • J-329(3) Juvenalis, Decimus Junius — Satyrae, et al. — [Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, after 1 Aug. 1472]. 4°.
  • L-006(1) Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus — Opera. — [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472. Folio.
  • L-023(1) Lamento Di Costantinopoli [Italian] — [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri], 27 Oct. 1487. 4°.
  • L-044(1) Latini, Brunetto — Il tesoro [Italian]. — Treviso: Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, 16 Dec. 1474. Folio.
  • L-087(1) Leonicenus, Nicolaus — De morbo gallico. — Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, June 1497. 4°.
  • L-154(1) Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus — Pharsalia. — Venice: Guerinus, 14 May 1477. Folio.
  • L-183(1) Lucretius Carus, Titus — De rerum natura. — Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 4 Sept. 1495. 4°.
  • M-064(1) Manilius, Marcus — Astronomicon. — Nuremberg: Johann Müller of Königsberg (Regiomontanus), [1473-4]. 4°.
  • M-115(1) Martialis, Marcus Valerius — Epigrammata, et al. (ed. Nicolaus Perottus). — Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 30 Apr. 1473. Folio.
  • M-120(1) Martialis, Marcus Valerius — Epigrammata, et al. (comm. Domitius Calderinus). — Venice: [Printer of the 1480 Martialis], 1480. Folio.
  • M-125(1) Martialis, Marcus Valerius — Epigrammata, et al. (comm. Domitius Calderinus and Georgius Merula). — Venice: Philippus Pincius, 29 Mar. 1491. Folio.
  • M-126(1) Martialis, Marcus Valerius — Epigrammata, et al. (comm. Domitius Calderinus and Georgius Merula). — Venice: [Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello], 1 Aug. 1495. Folio.
  • M-175(1) Mela, Pomponius — Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis. — Milan: [Pamfilo Castaldi], 25 Sept. 1471. 4°.
  • M-333(1) Myst ère — Le Mystère de la Passion Jésus-Christ. — Paris: [Pierre Le Dru] for Antoine Vérard, 1499. Folio.
  • N-123(1) Nonius Marcellus — De compendiosa doctrina, et al. — Parma: [Printer of Hieronymus, ‘Epistolae'], 1480. Folio.
  • P-118(1) Perottus, Nicolaus — Rudimenta grammatices. — [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1483]. 4°.
  • P-132(1) Persius Flaccus, Aulus — Satyrae. — [Basel: Martin Flach, c.1474]. Folio.
  • P-165(1)? Petrarca, Francesco — Historia Griseldis (ed. Heinrich Steinhöwel). — Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1473. Folio.
  • P-168(1)? Petrarca, Francesco — Historia Griseldis [German] Griseldis (trans. Heinrich Steinhöwel). — [Strasbourg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer], 1482. Folio.
  • P-375(1) Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny the younger) — Epistolae. — [Rome: Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia, not after 1 June 1474]. 4°.
  • P-376(1) Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny the younger) — Epistolae (ed. Junianus Maius). — Naples: Mathias Moravus, July 1476. Folio.
  • P-424(2) Politianus, Angelus — Miscellaneorum centuria prima. — Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 19 Sept. 1489. Folio.
  • P-531(1) Ptolemaeus Alexandrinus, Claudius — Geographia (trans. Jacobus Angeli, ed. Philippus Beroaldus and others). — Bologna: Dominicus de Lapis, 23 June ‘1462' [i.e. 1477]. Folio.
  • Q-013(1) Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius — Institutiones oratoriae (ed. Omnibonus Leonicenus). — [Venice]: Nicolaus Jenson, 21 May 1471. Folio.
  • R-100(1) Rolewinck, Werner — De regimine rusticorum. — [Cologne: Bartholmaeus de Unkel, not before 1481]. 4°.
  • S-023(2) Sallustius Crispus, Gaius — Opera: Bellum Catilinae; Bellum Iugurthinum. — Florence: Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli, 1478. Folio and 4°.
  • S-040(1) Salomon et Marcolphus — Dialogus [Version Δ]. — [Speier: Johann & Conrad Hist, c.1484]. 4°.
  • S-125(1) Scriptores Rei Rusticae — Scriptores rei rusticae (ed. Philippus Beroaldus, after Georgius Merula and Franciscus Colucia). — Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 18 Sept. 1496. Folio.
  • S-153(1) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus — De moribus, et al. (ed. Blasius Romerus). — Naples: Mathias Moravus, 1[4]75. Folio.
  • S-203(1) Silius Italicus — Punica (comm. Petrus Marsus), et al. — Venice: [Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino], 20 Sept. 1493. Folio.
  • S-244(1) Solinus, Gaius Iulius — Polyhistor, siue Collectanea rerum memorabilium. — [Rome: Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia?, 1474-5]. 4° and 8°.
  • S-287(2) Statius Publius Papinius — Opera, et al. — Venice: Jacobus de Paganinis, 24 Dec. 1490. Folio.
  • S-295(1) Statius, Publius Papinius — Thebais (ed. Boninus Mombritius). — Milan: [Printer for Boninus Mombritius, c.1476-7]. 4°.
  • S-336(1) Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius — De Vita Caesarum (ed. Johannes Antonius Campanus). — Rome: [Johannes Philippus de Lignamine], Aug. 1470. Folio.
  • T-024(1)? Terentius Afer, Publius — Comoediae. — [Florence?: Printer of Terentius ‘Comoediae', c.1470?] 4°.
  • T-093(1) Thomas àKempis — Hortulus rosarum, et al. — Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1499. 8°.
  • V-045(1) Varro, Marcus Terentius — De Lingua Latina (ed. Julius Pomponius Laetus). — [Rome: Georgius Lauer, c.1471-2]. 4°.
  • V-072(1) Vergilius Maro, Publius — Opera, et al. (ed. Johannes Andreae, Bishop of Aleria). — Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [1469]. Folio.
  • V-075(1) Vergilius Maro, Publius — Opera, et al. — Rome: Ulrich Han and Simon Nicolai Chardella, de Lucca, 4 Nov. 1473. Folio.
  • V-077(1) Vergilius Maro, Publius — Opera, et al. — Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1475. Folio.
  • V-092(1) Vergilius Maro, Publius — Opera (comm. Maurus Servius Honoratus), et al. — Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 1 Oct. 1483. Folio.
  • V-109(2) Vergilius Maro, Publius — Aeneis [English] Eneydos (trans. William Caxton). — [Westminster: William Caxton, after 22 June 1490]. Folio.
  • V-149(1) Vitruvius Pollio — De architectura (ed. Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus). — [Rome: Eucharius Silber, between 1486 and 16 Aug. 1487]. Folio.

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